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Sunday Lately, 57

Sunday Lately is a weekly link up brought to you by the Blogger Tribe. Link up and see what's been happening lately!Sunday Lately is a weekly linkup hosted by the Blogger Tribe (which is being fearlessly lead by Meghan, Nicole, Katy, and myself). We e-hang out every Sunday, sharing a small glimpse into the last week of life in our own worlds. We’d love if you could join us!
This week’s themes: Doing, Appreciating, Designing, Humming, Expecting

 

This is the post in which I talk about being sick. Because I can’t think about much else. And it’s really short because looking at a computer is giving me a killer headache. I get whiny when I’m sick. Sorry guys.

Doing

I have been knocked out with a nasty cold. I haven’t been doing anything that I haven’t already agreed to doing. And even that is a struggle. Being sick sucks.

Why is the rum Kleenex gone?

Empty Kleenex Box

Appreciating

Kleenex and Sudafed and Advil. I usually don’t like taking anything when I’m sick and just let it ride, but I don’t think I would be functioning if it wasn’t for decongestant.

Designing

I’m starting up a fry blog (that I’ve been talking about for a while) and I have to get the design going. And test fries. And write about. What a hard life it will be.

Humming

30 Rock theme song.

Expecting

This cold to go away soon. I hope. Dear Lord, please let it go away soon.

What’s up with you lately?


Sunday Lately, 55

Sunday Lately is a weekly link up brought to you by the Blogger Tribe. Link up and see what's been happening lately!Sunday Lately is a weekly linkup hosted by the Blogger Tribe (which is being fearlessly lead by Meghan, Nicole, Katy, and myself). We e-hang out every Sunday, sharing a small glimpse into the last week of life in our own worlds. We’d love if you could join us!
This week’s themes: Completing, Visiting, Repeating, Writing, Scheduling

**I totally slacked off yesterday and decided to fall asleep on the couch for most of the day instead of post this on Sunday. So we’re doing Monday Lately.

Completing

Awkward: I’m just now getting around to completing my Holiday Council sheets (that have sat untouched since the beginning of the month).

Awesome: Blogging discussions with my Pittsburgh girls Marissa and Kristin are amazing. And they’re going to force me to complete my goals.

Visiting

Awkward: On Saturday, Katy and I went to a beer festival. It was fantastic. Why is it in the awkward category? Because of my terrible white girl dancing. Katy is smooth. I am not. But we did have people comment on our moves. Hey, if you play music, expect tipsy girls to dance.

Awesome: We also went to the Andy Warhol Museum and it was fantastic to walk around and make fun of art. Listen, I love Andy, but some of his art just looks like he got bored halfway through and walked away from the project. Although that’s an interesting life lesson…

The Andy Warhol Musuem cow wallpaper is so cool! I need this in my house.

Repeating

Awkward: Lists on lists on lists. They keep me organized and sane, but I start to write them on a pad at work, then in my planner, then on another page in my planner. I know I could use an app on my phone, but physically writing something makes me remember it more.

Awesome: How excited I am to read Kayla Hollatz’s Brave Little Bones. Many thanks to Marissa for this one!
Brave Little Bones by Kayla Hollatz

Writing

Awkward: Sunday Lately on Monday morning at work…that’s what I’m writing. Sorry guys.
Awesome: Hey at least I’m not skipping it!

Scheduling

Awkward & Awesome: So I have two different planners and I’m writing in both of them and I’m quickly realizing that I’m using The Happy Planner more than my Moleskine planner I purchased (to carry daily since it’s smaller than The Happy Planner). I love that I’m using THP more than I thought I would, but I can’t give up my Moleskine planners. Plus, it has Snoopy on it.


Sunday Lately, 54

Sunday Lately is a weekly link up brought to you by the Blogger Tribe. Link up and see what's been happening lately!Sunday Lately is a weekly linkup hosted by the Blogger Tribe (which is being fearlessly lead by Meghan, Nicole, Katy, and myself). We e-hang out every Sunday, sharing a small glimpse into the last week of life in our own worlds. We’d love if you could join us!
This week’s themes: Updating, Remembering, Needing, Wearing, Being

 

Updating

Awkward: I killed most of my houseplants because I left them outside too long and they got frostbitten. I went to Lowes to replace them and couldn’t find any. Sad face.

Awesome: I did find some other air purifying plants and a poor orphaned clearance succulent for $1.00. They’re all repotted along with some surviving houseplants I’m trying to rehab and doing well.

Baby succulent from Lowes clearance section. It is possible to rehab a plant!

Remembering

Awkward: I don’t think I have anything awkward to remember today. Yay!

Awesome: How awesome it is to has fresh blueberry muffins in the morning. I love blueberry muffins. I used this fantastic recipe from Averie Cooks. It’s a skinny recipe so it isn’t as crumbly and sweet as a traditional bakery blueberry muffin, but it still tastes great.

Needing

Awkward: I still have my Christmas decorations up. And they really need to come down. But it’s such a pain in the ass. I have to get the boxes out. I have to put things in the boxes, I have to try to puzzle-piece them back inside their bigger storage box. I’d rather just watch Netflix.

Awesome: I rearranged some art and made some new things to use on my gallery wall sections. If you need to refresh a space, try moving around art.

Wearing

Awkward: The weather on Saturday was bananas-level warm. I started out with my winter coat and scarf and by the end of my errand session, it was all off. It was freezing just the day before. What is happening with this weather??

Awesome: I didn’t need to bundle up in a heavy winter coat, so I call that a win.

Being

Awkward & Awesome – that’s my answer. I’m being awkward and awesome.


Sunday Lately, 53

Sunday Lately is a weekly link up brought to you by the Blogger Tribe. Link up and see what's been happening lately!Sunday Lately is a weekly linkup hosted by the Blogger Tribe (which is being fearlessly lead by Meghan, Nicole, Katy, and myself). We e-hang out every Sunday, sharing a small glimpse into the last week of life in our own worlds. We’d love if you could join us!
This week’s themes: Creating, Finding, Switching, Forgetting, Craving.

Creating

Awkward: I pretty much blew my life up at the end of 2015. I was lazy, complacent, drinking too much, forgetting to check in with myself to find out if I was okay with the choices I was making (surprise: I wasn’t). So now that I tore myself down…

Awesome: …I get to build back up. Create new things in 2016. My word is RADIANT this year and damnit I’m going to sparkle if it kills me (no ingesting of glitter, though. That shit really will kill you.)

Finding

Awkward: I came home last night to hear scratching noises above my head in the living room. Fast forward to 5:30 am this morning and I was woken up by the same scratching noises. I felt a little like Leslie Knope. Except their part of town appears to be my bedroom.

Leslie Knope raccoon quote. Leslie is the best.

Awesome: I’m finally figuring out how I want to use my Happy Planner. I would LOVE to be one of those people who decorates it all pretty and whatnot, but then where do you write? I use a planner to plan, yknow?

Switching

Awkward: It’s always awkward for me to switch years. I haven’t really ever placed much stock in a shiny new me the second the clock strikes 12. Let’s be real here, I’m gonna be the same sarcastic ass I was at 12:01 that I was at 11:59. So it feels disingenuous to say I’m going to flip to an entirely new mindset the minute it’s a new year.

Awesome: I do have some pretty awesome goals, though, so I have to switch my mindset if I want them to happen. I want to bust out of my jeans-and-t-shirt/stale-routine kinda way I’ve been going. I did officially register the domain for the fry blog that I want to do, so that’s step 1.

Forgetting

Awkward: To write anything until it’s almost noon the first day that I’m a part of the Blogger Tribe Sunday Lately linkup. Whoops.

Awesome: I went to a Pens game last night and I forgot how great it is when we win. Should that be in the Awesome or Awkward category…?

Craving

Awkward & Awesome: Now that I’ve talked about Leslie Knope, I want waffles. Oh you beautiful sunfish, why do you have to be so addictive?


Sunday Lately, 46

Last Sunday, I shot my Wear to Where and Makeup Mix-Up looks. And of course, I got my hair to look awesome. And then I didn’t go anywhere for the rest of the day. Isn’t how that always happens?

Braided second day hair updo

And my Angelica’s Favorite Things Kinda Like Oprah but Nerdier officially has a winner! And it’s none other than the lovely Life with Lolo!

Angelica's favorite things giveaway winner

Planning

Awesome: Planning another awesome week doing Wear to Where. I am simply blown away by how awesome this is turning out to be. The bloggers participating with us are truly amazing. If you missed anything, find links to Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, and Day 5 sewist and stylist tour guides.

Awkward: I don’t know why you’d plan for something awkward to happen And I don’t have anything coming up that I’m all Bill Lumbergh about, so I guess awesome/awkward doesn’t work for this one!

Loving

Awesome: Everything you love should be awesome, guys.

Awkward: Awkward love is still beautiful, yo.

Reading

Awesome: Still reading Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. It’s still incredible. She’s incredible. I love it. I love her. </fangirl>

Awkward: Health insurance stuff. Seriously, this is a big thing holding be back from ever wanting to run my own business. I don’t understand this junk and I don’t think I ever will. Every time I go to the dentist, she tells me how huge my tonsils are and that I should get them removed. So I started to look into who could do the surgery and based on my plan, how much I’d have to pay out of pocket. And then I drank half a bottle of wine because my head hurt.

Wishing

Awesome: I’m wishing for awesome stuff in general to happen to me this year. Why? It’s my birthday (not a cheesy ploy for a “happy birthday” comment), just saying. Celebration emojis here!

Awkward: Another category that awesome/awkward doesn’t work for. I don’t know why you’d wish for something awkward to happen. Right? Prove me wrong, people, I love it!

Feeling

Awesome: Actually, I’m just feeling awesome in general. There are so many incredible bloggers touring us through the Wear to Where series. I can’t believe that it was just an idea that Katy and I had months ago and it’s actually happening. I know, I’m talking about it so much, but it’s been ages in the making.

Awkward: No awkwardness here. Not even a totally half-hearted-because-I-don’t-really-mean-it old joke.

What’s been up with you lately? Anything good going on this week?

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